65;
accompanies him on mission to French, 66.
Vergennes,
requests release of Asgill, i. 329, 330;
letter of Washington to, 330;
proposes to submit disposition of a subsidy to Washington, 332.
Virginia, society in,
before the Revolution, i. 15-29;
its entire change since then, 15, 16;
population, distribution, and numbers, 17, 18;
absence of towns, 18;
and town life, 19;
trade and travel in, 19;
social classes, 20-24;
slaves and poor whites, 20;
clergy, 21;
planters and their estates, 22;
their life, 22;
education, 23;
habits of governing, 24;
luxury and extravagance, 25;
apparent wealth, 26;
agreeableness of life, 27;
aristocratic ideals, 28;
vigor of stock, 29;
unwilling to fight French, 71;
quarrels with Dinwiddie, 71;
thanks Washington after his French campaign, 79;
terrified at Braddock's defeat, 88;
gives Washington command, 89;
fails to support him, 89, 90, 93;
bad economic conditions in, 104,105;
local government in, 117;
condemns Stamp Act, 119;
adopts non-importation, 121;
condemns Boston Port Bill, 123;
asks opinion of counties, 124;
chooses delegates to a congress, 127;
prepares for war, 132;
British campaign in, 307, 315-318;
ratifies Constitution, ii. 40;
evil effect of free trade upon, 116, 117;
nullification resolutions, 266;
strength of its aristocracy, 315.
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